Monday, January 31, 2011

Things that have happened on January 31 throughout history...

2010 A 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan province, China, destroys at least 100 homes, injures 11 and kills one person

2006 Samuel Alito sworn in as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

2000 Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer

1999 Super Bowl XXXIII, Pro Player Stadium, Miami, Denver Broncos beat Atlanta Falcons 34-19

1998 72nd Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats C Martinez (63 63)

1998 STS-89 (Endeavour 12) lands

1994 Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down

1994 Dow Jones hits a record 3,978.36

1993 "St. Joan" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 49 performances
1993 81st Australian Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats S Edberg (62 61 26 75)
1993 Superbowl XXVII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 52-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Troy Aikman, Dallas, quarterback

1992 Metropolitan Transportation Authority raised tolls on most New York City bridges from $2.50 to $3.00
1992 Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires

1991 Nugget's Michael Adams becomes shortest NBA player to get a triple-double
1991 Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude

1990 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds
1990 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing
1990 Jushin "Thunder" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ

1988 Barge sinks near Anacortes, WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil
1988 Superbowl XXII: Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos, 42-10 in San Diego Superbowl MVP: Doug Williams, Washington, quarterback

1987 44th Golden Globes: Platoon, Marlee Matlin win
1987 United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp

1986 Mary Lund of Minn, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart

1985 "Harrigan 'n Hart" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 5 performances
1985 South Africa President PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence

1984 36th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-6 at New Jersey
1984 Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network
1984 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1982 10 Arabian oryx, extinct except in zoos, released in Oman
1982 12th AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 16-13
1982 32nd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 120-118 at New Jersey
1982 Gustafson skates world record 10 km (14:26.59)
1982 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
1982 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 16-13
1982 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton

1981 "The Tide Is High" by Blondie hits #1
1981 38th Golden Globes: Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter
1981 Gaetan Boucher skates world record 1000m (1:13.39)

1980 Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41

1978 "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 101 performances
1978 Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements

1977 Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad
1977 Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, and Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame

1976 "Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players hits #1
1976 Lance Gibbs becomes highest Test wicket-taker at 308

1975 Barry Manilow's "Mandy" goes gold
1975 John Lennon releases "#9 Dream"
1975 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship

1974 McDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres

1972 Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral
1972 Birenda, becomes leader of Nepal
1972 Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana
1972 U.S. launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998)

1971 "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on United Kingdom pop chart
1971 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands
1971 Jake Beckley, Joe Kelley, Harry Hooper, Rube Marquard, Chick Hafey
1971 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1971 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by John Misha Petkevich
1971 & Dave Bancroft and George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame

1970 Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges

1969 Beatles perform last live gig (42-minute concert on roof of Apple HQs)
1969 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1968 Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 vs. India in his last Test for ten years
1968 Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares independence from Australia
1968 Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, U.S.S.R.
1968 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins

1966 Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers
1966 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 9 towards Moon

1965 Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame

1964 U.S. report "Smoking and Health" connects smoking to lung cancer

1963 Tony Sheridan and Beat Brothers record "What'd I Say" and "Ruby Baby"

1962 General Charles P. Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1962 Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout"

1961 David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel
1961 Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2
1961 Houston voters approve bond to finance luxury domed stadium
1961 Kanhai completes twin tons (117 and 115) vs. Australia at Adelaide
1961 NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak says he'll resign
1961 USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights

1960 Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress and singer Phyllis Newman in New York City

1959 Joe Cronin signs 7 year pact to become head of AL

1958 "Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host
1958 James van Allen discovers radiation belt
1958 U.S. launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1

1957 Liz Taylor's 2nd divorce (Michael Wilding)
1957 Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished

1956 French government of Mollet forms
1956 Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of Brazil

1955 RCA demonstrates 1st music synthesizer

1953 "Princess Victoria" capsized off Stanraer Scotland; 133 die
1953 Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning 1,835
1953 New York, Cleveland, and Boston retaliate at Bill Veeck, forcing the Browns to play afternoon games to avoid sharing TV revenues

1952 Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1 centuries
1952 Harry Heilmann and Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1950 President Truman approves building of hydrogen bomb

1949 1st daytime soap on TV "These Are My Children" (NBC in Chicago)

1948 J D Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in NY
1948 Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway

1946 Yugoslavia adopts new constitution, becomes a federal republic

1945 U.S. 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath

1944 Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June
1944 U-592 sunk off Ireland
1944 U.S. forces invade Kwajalein Atoll

1943 39 U boats sunk this month (203,100 ton)
1943 Chile breaks contact with Germany and Japan
1943 General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad

1942 62 U boats sunk this month (327,000 ton)

1941 21 U boats sunk this month (127,000 ton)
1941 Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands
1941 Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

1940 40 U boats sunk this month (111,000 ton)
1940 C Turney and J Horwin's "My Dear Children," premieres in New York City

1936 "Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit

1934 Franklin D. Roosevelt devalus dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce

1933 French government of Daladier takes power
1933 Hitler promises parliamentary democracy

1932 U.S. railway unions accept 10% wage reduction

1931 NHL's Quebec Bulldogs' Joseph Malone scores a record 7 goals
1931 Philip Barry's "Tomorrow and Tomorrow," premieres in New York City

1930 1st U.S. glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst, New Jersey

1929 Erich Maria Remarques publishes "Im West nieces Neues" in Berlin
1929 Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey

1928 Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company

1927 International allies military command in Germany disbands
1927 NL President John Heydler rules Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals and play for the Giants

1925 Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola

1920 1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in U.S. (New York City) begins publication
1920 Joe Malone, Quebec Bulldogs, sets NHL record with 7 goals in a game
1920 Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, at Howard University, incorporates

1917 Germany notifies U.S. that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship

1916 Dutch Girl Guides form

1915 1st German poison gas attack, against Russians

1911 Congress names San Francisco as Panama Canal opening celebration site

1906 Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter

1905 1st auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach
1905 Carroll Wright appointed 1st U.S. Commissioner of Labor

1904 Bela Bartok's symphony "Kossuth," premieres

1901 Boer general John Smuts and De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal
1901 Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at Moscow Art Theater
1901 Winnipeg Victorias sweep Montreal Shamrocks in 2 for Stanley Cup
1895 Jose Marti and others leave New York City for invasion of Spanish Cuba

1893 "Westminster Gazette" begins publishing

1874 Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Missouri

1871 Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkens sky

1865 Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24)
1865 General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies

1863 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, mustered into U.S. army

1862 Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius

1861 Friedrich Hebbel's "Siegfrieds Tod," premieres in Weimar
1861 State of Louisiana takes over U.S. Mint at New Orleans

1855 Western railroads blocked by snow

1854 Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute)

1851 Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk
1851 SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded

1849 Corn Laws abolished in Britain

1842 John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in White House

1817 Franz Grillparzer's "Die Ahnfrau," premieres in Vienna

1804 British Vice-Admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao

1779 Charles Messier adds M57 (Ring Nebula in Lyra) to his catalog

1696 Revolt of undertakers after funeral reforms (Amsterdam)

1679 Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon," premieres in Paris

1675 Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft

1627 Spanish government goes bankrupt

1609 Wisselbank of Amsterdam established

1596 Catholic League disjoins

1578 Battle of Gembloers

1560 Spanish king Philip II marries Elisabeth van Valois

1531 Kings Ferdinand of Austria/Janos Zapolyai of Hungary accept each other

1504 By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon

876 Charles becomes king of Italy

314 St. Silvester I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

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